See the topics below for ideas about how you can help on the wiki. Volunteers should also contact the Moderator for the State, Country and Possessions of interest for suggestions and help for contributions associated for that location. <br>

See the topics below for ideas about how you can help on the wiki. Volunteers should also contact the Moderator for the State, Country and Possessions of interest for suggestions and help for contributions associated for that location. <br>

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See the topics below for ideas about how you can help on the wiki. Volunteers should also contact the Moderator for the State, Country and Possessions of interest for suggestions and help for contributions associated for that location. <br>

== Wiki Editor Training ==

== Wiki Editor Training ==

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Volunteers - Help Us Build the Wiki

Like a barn raising, the Research Wiki can only be built with volunteers from all walks of life and with different levels of expertise.

Get Started

See the topics below for ideas about how you can help on the wiki. Volunteers should also contact the Moderator for the State, Country and Possessions of interest for suggestions and help for contributions associated for that location.

"How To" Reference Articles

Even More Opportunities for Beginners

Start Simple

Find pages that could use some TLC, such as Stubs, or Short Pages. There might be a section in these articles that you could enhance by adding content, or even just spell-checking.

Are you interested in a specific area? Could you add research tips to pages in that area that are in a specific section of the article, such as cemeteries?

Another possibility would be to watch genealogy blogs for press or news releases that could be added to the Wiki, if they're not time sensitive.

Could you check for broken links or add categories to pages?

US County pages

Is there something specific that is missing from several of them?

Examples:

Suppose several County pages are missing information about local libraries. Could you use an internet site, such as PublicLibraries.com to locate the libraries for each county and add the link to the page?

Add links to the Family History Center pages, if they're missing.

How about looking for county histories on Googlebooks or Internet Archives and then adding them to the County pages?

On FamilySearch Groups: Request an invitation | Go to FS Wiki group(FS Groups requires you to be invited to join; fill out the form to request an invitation, or go directly to the FS Wiki group if you've already joined.)

Get Started

See the topics below for ideas about how you can help on the wiki. Volunteers should also contact the Moderator for the State, Country and Possessions of interest for suggestions and help for contributions associated for that location.

Wiki Editor Training

Learn all about editing, and get started by adding something to improve the wiki. To learn all about editing in the wiki, click on each of the following in turn and follow the steps there:

On FamilySearch Groups: Request an invitation | Go to FS Wiki group(FS Groups requires you to be invited to join; fill out the form to request an invitation, or go directly to the FS Wiki group if you've already joined.)